Teaching and learning materials

This database aims to facilitate teachers access to educational materials relevant to pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures. This way they will be able to help learners appropriate their knowledge, attitudes, and skills as described in the lists of descriptors. The materials, available to download, can be selected according to various criteria: objectives (as expressed by the FREPA descriptors), levels of training, thematic areas, the type of pluralistic approach, and the language of instruction.

Students have to work in groups to create posters, models, etc. that represent the main streets of their town/district area including their linguistic/cultural diversity and then they have to present it to another class in another linguistic and geographical context.

Students have to work in groups to create posters, models, etc. that represent the main streets of their town/district area including their linguistic/cultural diversity and then they have to present it to another class in another linguistic and geographical context.

The didactic unit entitled "Welcome to the blue planet Mr.Pox!" shows, in the form of a project, six activities where the pupils will make a multicultural research to explain issues concerning the earth and its inhabitants.

This activity raises a threefold question:1) about family roots, the origins of each one of us,2) about cultural mobility that pupils have already had or are planning3) about networks of relationships all around the world.

Students discover in a playful way that there is a lively exchange between languages. They can find out that loan words don’t refer exclusively to the linguistic but also to the cultural level. Mostly, foreign words and loan words are borrowed as terms of new objects, new techniques or concepts.